Instrumentales enrique chia biography

Cuban-American pianist Enrique Chia never pursued musical fame, or even the large audience that has enabled him to issue more than 30 albums. For much of his life, he made music almost exclusively in private settings.

Devoting himself to the piano in retirement, however, he found a huge market for his unique style, partly rooted in Cuba's past, partly in the popular songs of his adopted American homeland---and always imbued with a quiet, romantic intimacy of the sort that had become increasingly rare in a musical scene dominated by impersonal production electronics.

"The houses in my town were one after the next one, like in your French Quarter, and people would stand outside my window and listen to me play," Chia told Sheila Stroup of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, recalling his childhood days.

"That's how I feel in the concert hall, like I am playing for neighbors and friends."

That town where neighbors heard the sounds of Chia's piano was Cienfue